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Current events of
June 10, 2011
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2011-06-10
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Syrian uprising
:
The
Syrian Army
begins operations to "restore security" to
Jisr al-Shughour
and the surrounding area.
(BBC)
Turkish
Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
describes the crackdown as "inhumane".
(Al Jazeera)
Thousands protest across the country, with at least 23 deaths reported.
(Al Jazeera)
(Trend News Agency Azerbaijan)
Sudan
's military bombs a village in
Unity State
, amid increasing tensions with
South Sudan
.
(BBC)
The
Somali
interior minister,
Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan
, is killed by a female
suicide bomber
at his house in the capital
Mogadishu
.
(BBC)
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Fresh
NATO
airstrikes take place over the capital
Tripoli
.
(Al Jazeera)
The
African Union
calls for
Muammar Gaddafi
to step down and leave Libya.
(All Africa)
Business and economy
The
People's Republic of China
's only ratings house that grades sovereign entities, the
Dagong Global Credit Rating Company
, states that the
United States
is already
defaulting
on its
debt
by allowing the
U.S. dollar
to devalue against other currencies, diminishing the wealth of China as a U.S.
creditor
.
(AFP via Yahoo!)
The
South Korean
Central Bank
raises its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent.
(Dow Jones via
The Australian
)
Disasters
At least 14 people are killed as a van falls into a canal in
Azad Kashmir
in
Pakistan
.
(Xinhua)
Radioactive
cesium
above
Japanese
legal limits is found in
tea
from the
Shizuoka Prefecture
, located 300 kilometres from the
earthquake-damaged
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
.
(NHK)
The British
Environment Agency
declares
drought
in five
English
counties
–
Lincolnshire
,
Cambridgeshire
, parts of
Bedfordshire
,
Northamptonshire
and
Norfolk
– following a dry spring.
(Sky News)
International relations
Iran
has reportedly been caught on 10 separate occasions trying to send arms to
terrorist
groups, including
Hamas
and the
Taliban
.
(
Jerusalem Post
)
South China Sea
dispute:
Vietnam
said that a Chinese fishing boat had purposefully torn away a seismic research cable laid by Vietnam's
Petrovietnam
oil company inside Vietnam’s 200 nautical mile
exclusive economic zone
.
(RIA Novosti)
(BBC)
In response,
China
warns
Vietnam
to stop all activities in the disputed waters.
(RIA Novosti)
(BBC)
After that, Vietnam announces a live-ammunition military drill in the area.
(Forbes)
Law and crime
Yuri Budanov
, a
Russian
colonel convicted of strangling an 18-year-old
Chechen
girl during the
Chechen War
, is shot dead in
Moscow
.
(AFP via Google News)
(RIA Novosti)
Hundreds of
Mainland Chinese
and
Taiwanese
people are arrested in several countries across
Asia
during a crackdown on a telephone scam network.
(AFP via Google News)
Politics and elections
Sinn Fein
's
Paul Maskey
wins the
West Belfast by-election
.
(BBC)
Sports
The
Vancouver Canucks
defeat the
Boston Bruins
by a score of 1–0 in Game 5 of the
2011 Stanley Cup Finals
, to take a 3–2 series lead.
(NHL)
Persepolis F.C.
win their fifth title in the
Iranian
Hazfi Cup
after
defeating
Malavan F.C.
in the final.
(Varzesh3)
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